We are excited to announce that Friends of Jefferson Square Park will be joining with the City of Philadelphia for the 2024 Philly Spring Cleanup Day.
This year, the city is celebrating 17-years of community cleaning partnerships, and we are proud to participate and show our park some neighborhood love. The 2024 PSC will be held on Saturday, April 6, 2024.
This event will replace the ongoing Second Saturday park cleanup for April
A very special Thank You to Queen Village Neighbors Association (IG: @qvnaorg) for awarding Spring and Fall 2023 Community Grants to the Friends of Jefferson Square!
The combined $3,900 grant totals covered partial costs for two days of work towards tending to our historic trees, with FoJSP contributing $1,000 to the effort. Crew 7 at Liberty Tree & Landscape Management (IG: @libertytree_landscapemgmt) added a third day pro-bono. Work included culling out dead wood, taking weight off of heavy limbs at risk of tearing or falling, and improving pedestrian safety.
While Liberty was doing their work, one of our volunteers with Friends of Jefferson Square Park spent those three days doing winter pruning, general landscaping, and removing Spotted Lanternfly eggs. 
Thank you again for the Spring and Fall 2023 QVNA Community Grant Program for this wonderful opportunity for us to keep our park green and healthy! And a special thank you for the team at Liberty Tree and Landscape Maintenance for getting us off on a great start to 2024!
And thank you to everyone who volunteers to help us maintain the park! Want to help out? Come and join us on the second Saturday of each month (starting up in March) with park clean-up and general maintenance.
Families of Little Ones! Join us for the return of Kids Night at Jefferson Square Park.
Tuesday, July 11th from 3 to 5 PM Hosted by Shelby, a South Philly parent.
Bring your own: bike, scooter, chalk, bubbles, etc!
The park will provide chalk & a sprinkler for this event.
Starting Tuesday May 17th and running through September 27th.
Registration is required. Just click the green button below and you will be taken to their website.
A very special Thank You to Queen Village Neighbors Association (IG: @qvnaorg) for awarding a Fall Community Grant to the Friends of Jefferson Square!
The $4,700 grant covered the costs for two days work towards tending to our historic trees. Crew 7 at Liberty Tree & Landscape Management (IG: @libertytree_landscapemgmt) added a third day and extra staff pro-bono. Work included culling out dead wood, taking weight off of heavy limbs at risk of tearing or falling, and improving pedestrian safety.
While Liberty was doing their work, one of our volunteers with Friends of Jefferson Square Park spent those three days doing winter pruning and removing Spotted Lanternfly eggs.
Thank you again for the Fall 2022 QVNA Community Grant Program for this wonderful opportunity for us to keep our park green and healthy! And a special thank you for the team at Liberty Tree and Landscape Maintenance for getting us off on a great start to 2023!
And thank you to everyone who volunteers to help us maintain the park! Want to help out? Come and join us on the second Saturday of each month (starting up in March) with park clean-up and general maintenance.
On Sunday December 4th, 2022 at 4:30PM
Come and join your neighbors for the 17th Annual Holiday Lights in the park celebration. Start off the festive season with your neighbors and share in cider & cocoa, cookies, and holiday cheer! 
Hello from the Beautification lead for Jefferson Square Park.
Have you wondered what activities contribute to the maintenance, care, and beautification of the park? The Friends of Jefferson Square Park leads volunteer activities and efforts nearly every month of the year to attend to the park, and keep it as a vital community green space. Each season offers a new way to engage and care for the park, and ensure its continued enjoyment.
In the early spring, the focus is on getting the twenty-one flower beds in the park ready for a great year. We clean out dead material, trim, and put down compost to feed the plants and donated perennial flowers. We also rake out the lawns, spread compost for the grass, take care of downed tree limbs and litter from the winter, and prune the roses. We put down mulch, check on the new tree saplings, and try to give the park the best start at the year that we can. Spring is a busy time of year!
During the summer months, we work on clearing weeds, addressing litter both within and around the exterior of the park, and try to keep the park as clean as possible.
By autumn, the leaves are coming down and we have lots to bag and send off-site for the city’s leaf composting program. With all of the beautiful trees in the park, the leaves are copious. Autumn is also a great time for us to put in donated shrubs and perennial plants from individuals in the community, and reseed the lawns if we have hands to do it. By winter, everything gets a rest, and if it’s one of the years we have funds for tree care then we arrange for those activities.
If you’re interested in coming out for a one-shot volunteer day, or for several months of the year, we always have a need for extra hands and all activity levels are more than welcome. Thank you for keeping the park cleaner than when you arrived, and please join us any second Saturday of the month (except August), to lend a hand in keeping the park beautiful.
Friday, May 14th, 2021 – Jefferson Square Park
Save the date for an incredible virtual concert! This event is a collaboration between local musicians, organized by the enigmatic Tubey Frank, and Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens (PMG). On Friday, May 14 at 7:00 PM, the concert will be happening in Jefferson Square Park, broadcast on PMG’s website as well as PMG’s Facebook and YouTube channel, and the performers’ social media platforms.
Learn more about it on Philadelphia Magic Gardens website.
With more than ten inches of snow over three days, neighbors took to the park to create more than a dozen snowpeople and other creations. Here are some of the results of the fun in the snow.
As a result of generous contributions from neighbors and friends in the community, Friends of Jefferson Square Park were able to have Bartlett Tree Experts out to the park for two days of needed tree maintenance and preventative care on our historic park trees. Work was conducted on Thursday, January 14, and Friday, January 15, 2020.
On the first day, a bucket truck was brought out to reach some of the largest dead branches and safely remove them. This allowed the arborists access to hard-to-reach areas of the trees. On the second day, the arborist crew spent the day directly in the trees with safety harnesses to cut out dead material, lighten heavy limbs, and install flexible steel cables, to limit movement and reduce the risk of limb failure. During their two days in the park, the Bartlett crew attended to two Horse Chestnuts, a large American Elm, six London Planes, a Red Maple, three Siberian Elms, and a Cherry. Priorities for this work were addressing the long-term health of our historic trees, structural pruning, and safety. During these activities, members of the Friends of Jefferson Square Park worked to spot and remove clusters of invasive Spotted Lanternfly eggs from the park trees.
Bartlett’s experienced arborists did a great job, and we look forward to working with them in the future to keep our trees healthy and extend their lives for everyone’s enjoyment in the park.
Many many thanks go out to everyone who contributed to this effort!
